Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.system:5464 rec.music.synth:21591 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,rec.music.synth Subject: System 7.0's missing component... Message-ID: <10836@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 15 May 91 11:54:07 GMT Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Sally Fowler Rat Pack Lines: 30 Well, well, you all have 7.0 now. Good, good. I hope I'll get to see it over here soon. (Last time I approached a dealer it was about getting hold of 6.0.2, and they were all excited about Apple's wonderful new System 5.0.) So: what happened to MIDI Manager? You know, that important new system component which would bring the Macintosh to the forefront of MIDI music applications with the arrival of System 7.0? There was a lot of noise about this a couple of years ago when MM went beta, but what with the court case and so on, it's vanished quietly, even though some of us have been using MM for a year or two. So, looks like Apple have backed down on this one. Mac users still can't get hold of the MIDI Management tools unless they have friends in the developer business. And I *still* don't know whether it works reliably with System 7.0's virtual memory. And I *still* don't know how to make my MIDI Manager application VM-proof by locking down the interrupt-level machinery. And I *still* don't know whether it's being supported actively or not. Would somebody over there in the US like to volunteer to use their wonderful free 800 number support line (which I suspect we all get to pay for, regardless, grumble) and find out what the hell Apple are doing about the MIDI Management tools? Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~~ "The tabla is an organic instrument. We use the hammer for tuning. ~~~ ~~~ And also for teaching." ~~~